CHINESE VICTORIES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 164, 13 July 1945, Page 5

CHINESE VICTORIES

Do Not Imply Offensive On

Full Scale

UNITED STATES CAUTION

Rec. 1 p.m

NEW YORK, July 12.

The Japanese appeared to be withdrawing in China in orderly fashion, said the Under-Secretary of War, Mr. R: P. Patterson, to-day. However, he added, they were quite capable of launching counter-attacks. While recent Chinese victories were heartening, their successes thus far had been local in character. Mr. Patterson issued the caution that repeated news of local victories, however encouraging, might incorrectly- assume; the proportions of a seemingly fullscale offensive.

The Chungking corespondent of the Associated Press reports that Chinese forces driving towards Yungfu, 30 miles from Kweilin, recaptured Luchai, 28 miles north-east of Liu'chcw.

Chinese forces, the correspondent adds, suffered a setback on the South China coast, the Japanese capturing Tinpak, 170 miles south-west of Canton.

The Chinese found the most elabo--rate mining and booby-trapping of the war at the Liuchow airfield, indibating that the* pursuit will be tougher, as the Japanese retreat.

BANGKOK , RAILWAY BOMBING OP TERMINUS N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, July 13. When Liberators bombed Bangkok railway terminus for one hour on July 7 the first aircraft to attack was piloted by Flying-Officer J. E. Haycock/of Nelson, states the Air Ministry news service. "I dropped my bombs on the. southern- part of the-yards," said Flying-Officer Haycock. "I followed my stick down and could see the bombs go right into the- railway workshops. I went round again and found that the roof had been blown clean off a building. By that time bombs were bursting all over the target area and there were big fires.. There were only a few bursts outside the target area/'

BALTIC PORT REOPENS

DANZIG AND GDYNIA AREA

Red 1.30.

LONDON, July 12

Although the sunken "• German battleships Gneisenau and Schleswig Holstein, with five transports and many smaller vessels, block the channel, the joint port of Danzig and Gdynia was opened for shipping, yesterday when one Russian and two Swedish vessels arrived, says the Associated Press correspondent. The sunken ships were heavily mined and their removal is .a long-term task. The greatest danger is from 57 large magnetic mines of the type which lie dormant for months. The Germans planted them and no one knows where ,pr, how they are set. In addition every storm is likely to bring in floating mines from the Baltic. It will be a long time before, the port functions fully, as the Germans thoroughly wrecked the har bour and the installations. The Poles at Gdynia had built 10 huge wellequipped basins, all protected by a massive sea wall in which the Germans blew gaps every 100 yards.